[openssl-users] openssl -check

[Jakob Bohm]

On 06/09/2017 16:18, "Georg Höllrigl" wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a way to verifiy a cert?
> I'm thinking about some equivalent to
> openssl rsa -noout -in example.key -check
> but for the public part.
> I found some broken certifiate (lines in the PEM encoding got swapped)
> openssl x509 -in broken.cer but see no way to verify...
> compareing with the original cert shows different thumbprint... but 
> shouldn't there be some kind of checksum to verify?
The signature on a certificate is a very strong checksum.

For certificates that are not self-signed, openssl x509 -verify should
do it.


Enjoy

Jakob
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